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“Riveting Tales in British Literature”
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Students will discover a selection of writers and poets from across time in Britain. Note: These items are not for individual sale, but you do receive a marvelous discount. There is a significant amount of reading in the text, so no literature set is required.The Language Arts High School Language and Literature 3 program introduces students to choice works of British literature. Various helps will allow them to critique the writing and discover the historical events and movements that influenced writers over the centuries. Along with the study of major British literature movements and pieces, Shakespeare's works will be highlighted and a couple of his most famous plays studied in-depth.
Students will also continue grammar instruction and vocabulary development. This program is recommended for use with the high school version of "Royals and Revolution" as many of the events in Europe studied in this program directly correspond with the literature movements in this program.
The HS 3 program includes the resources listed below, and a guidebook that offers guidance for all the major language arts skills. This program does not have a coordinating literature set, as the British Literature text, along with the two Shakespearean plays, provides more than enough literature for students. Additional resources in this set offer instruction in grammar and mechanics skills, literature evaluation and vocabulary development.
Language Arts HS 3 Resources:
HS 3 Program Guide | LAH3-101 | $35
Includes a 36-week schedule that coordinates the variety of resources included in this program. The writing projects for this level involve traditional research topics that relate to British Literature. Discussion topics on key literary elements are included each week. Click here to see a sample of this program guide.
British Literature Write-In Reader | LAH3-201 | $27
Go in-depth into an author’s intent, goal in writing and discover much more about this year’s selections. The Write-In Reader helps students to interact with reading passages. It teaches reading skills that help a student read with purpose, connect what they are reading with prior knowledge, take notes on passages, make predictions, visualize what they are reading, and more. Students write in responses to questions and instruction as they work through their main textbook. Click here for a sample.
Language Essentials | LAH3-202 | $40
This comprehensive grammar text provides practice in grammar skills and works through the development of the English language as it progressed through Old, Middle, Modern and American English, then works on key grammatical skills such as the sentence, parts of speech, phrases and clauses, diagramming, mechanics and paragraph building. This book can serve as a lifetime resource for correct grammar, mechanics, and writing guidelines. Click here for a sample.
British Literature Main Text | LAH3-203 | $96
A beautiful, full-color text that will guide students through each period of British literature and help them to learn the historical context of the period, and the content of each type of writing. Various selections for reading will help students get to know good examples from prominent British writers. Well over 1300 pages in length, there are many different reading selections that will allow students to experience a wide range of British literature pieces. Do not fear, however! The student is not expected to read the entire textbook! A detailed list appears below that highlights what is studied this year. Each day's reading is very "doable." Click here for a sample.
Word Study | LAH3-204 | $26
Word Study allows students to learn more about how to integrate vocabulary study into everyday life. This resource encourages curiosity about words, models word attack and spelling strategies, and makes vocabulary study effective. Lessons cover a broad range of topics from etymology to context clues and spelling patterns. A detailed list of weekly lesson topics appears below. Click here for a sample.
Hamlet | LAH3-205 | $ 9
Romeo & Juliet | LAH3-206 | $ 9
These two classics take students up-close to Shakespeare. Reading these classic works will help students learn to read Shakespeare and acquaint them with some of his most-loved plays. Annotated versions of Shakespeare’s classics offer opportunities for discussion, reflection and challenging exercises.
British Literature Main Text Selections
INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
GENRES & TECHNIQUES
Week 1: Understanding Oral Tradition & Poetry Robin Hood & Allen a Dale Anonymous The Naming of Cats T.S. Eliot Rocking-Horse Winner D.H. Lawrence Week 2: Understanding Drama & Nonfiction The Rising of the Moon Lady Augusta Gregory Speech to the Troops at Tilbury Queen Elizabeth I Guided Reading: Book Review THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD
Week 3: Saint Bede the Venerable INTRODUCTION to the Anglo-Saxon Period
Conversion of King Edwin
Story of Caedmon
The Wife's Lament
Anglo-Saxon Riddles
Saint Bede the Venerable
Saint Bede the Venerable
Anonymous
AnonymousWeek 4: Beowulf Beowulf Review Anonymous THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
Week 5: Ballads, Poetry & Romance INTRODUCTION to the Medieval Period Sir Patrick Spens
The Great Silkie of Shule Skerrie
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Le Morte d'ArthurAnonymous
Anonymous
The Pearl Poet
Sir Thomas MaloryWeek 6: The Frame Tale: Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales: Prologue
Cangerbury Tales: Pardoner's TaleGeoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey ChaucerWeek 7: The Morality Play: Everyman Everyman
Medieval Ballads
Don Quixote (selection)Anonymous
Anonymous
Miguel de CervantesTHE RENAISSANCE
Week 8: Renaissance Poetry INTRODUCTION to the English Renaissance Whoso List to Hunt Sir Thomas Wyatt The Faerie Queen (selection) Edmund Spenser The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd Sir Walter Raleigh The Doubt of Future Foes Queen Elizabeth I Week 9: William Shakespeare's Sonnets Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare Sonnet 29 William Shakespeare Sonnet 130 William Shakespeare Song, to Celia Ben Jonson Week 10: Sir Thomas More and More Sonnets Utopia, Book 2 (selection) Sir Thomas More Petrarch's Canzoniere (selection) Petrarch Other Renaissance Literature Various Authors Week 11: Renaissance Drama: Christopher Marlowe INTRODUCTION to the Renaissance Drama The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe The Analects (selection) Confucius Selections from Shakespeare's Plays William Shakespeare SHAKESPEARE
As you might expect, the student is reading Shakespeare's plays. Macbeth is included in the British Literature text, while Hamlet and Romeo & Juliet are other books in this language arts package. After these weeks, the student returns to reading from the British Literature text.
Week 12: Shakespeare's Macbeth
Week 13: Shakespeare's Macbeth
Week 14: Hamlet
Week 15: Hamlet
Week 16: Hamlet
Week 17: Romeo & Juliet
Week 18: Romeo & Juliet
Week 19: Romeo & JulietTHE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Week 20: One John: John Donne INTRODUCTION to the Early 17th Century Song John Donne Holy Sonnet 10 John Donne ("Death, be not proud...") The Indifferent John Donne Meditation 17 John Donne ("Perchance he for whom the bell tolls...") Week 21: Two Johns: John Milton & John Bunyan Paradise Lost (selection) John Milton On His Blindness John Milton The Pilgrim's Progress (selection) John Bunyan THE RESTORATION & THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY NEOCLASSICISM
Week 22: The Age of Dryden INTRODUCTION to the Restoration & the 18th Century Song for St. Cecilia's Day John Dryden Diary of Samuel Pepys (selection) Samuel Pepys Oroonoko (selection) Aphra Behn Week 23: The Age of Pope & Johnson An Essay on Criticism Alexander Pope Gulliver's Travels (selection) Jonathan Swift Dictionary of the English Language Samuel Johnson A Brief to Free a Slave Samuel Johnson The Life of Samuel Johnson (selection) James Boswell THE ROMANTIC ERA
Week 24: Burns, Blake and Wordsworth INTRODUCTION to the Romantic Era Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray Auld Lang Syne Robert Burns John Anderson, My Jo Robert Burns The Lamb William Blake The Tyger William Blake London William Blake The World is Too Much With Us William Wordsworth Week 25: Coleridge, Shelley, and Lord Byron Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley She Walks in Beauty George Gordon, Lord Byron Week 26: Keats & Mary Shelley When I Have Fears John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats Vindication on the Rights of Women Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Introduction to Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley THE VICTORIAN AGE
Week 27: Tennyson INTRODUCTION to the Victorian Age The Lady of Shallott Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam (selection) Alfred, Lord Tennyson Week 28: The Brownings My Last Duchess Robert Browning Andrea del Sarto Robert Browning Sonnet 43 ("How do I love thee ...") Elizabeth Barrett Browning Dover Beach Matthew Arnold Week 29: Charles Dickens The Man He Killed Thomas Hardy Channel Firing Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush Thomas Hardy The Signalman Charles Dickens Week 30: A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens (Read via an e-book, online) Week 31: Emily Bronte & Others Promises Like Pie Crust Christina Rosetti A Birthday Christina Rosetti Through the Looking Glass (selection) Lewis Carroll The Night is Darkening Emily Bronte TWENTIETH CENTURY POETRY & PROSE
Week 32: Yeats and Eliot INTRODUCTION to the Twentieth Century Preludes T.S. Eliot Lake Isle of Innisfree William Butler Yeats Adam's Curse William Butler Yeats The Soldier Rupert Brooke Week 33: Lawrence and Atwood Snake D.H. Lawrence Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Dylan Thomas Follower Seamus Heaney Bread Margaret Atwood Week 34: Conrad and Orwell INTRODUCTION to Contemporary Prose A Room of One's Own (selection) Virginia Woolf Shooting an Elephant George Orwell The Lagoon Joseph Conrad A Sunrise on the Veld Doris Lessing CONTEMPORARY DRAMA
Week 35: Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion INTRODUCTION to Contemporary Drama Pygmalion Bernard Shaw Week 36: Final Review Review Units 1-4
Review Units 5-8
Review Units 9-12
Take Final Test in Appendix 2Word Study Topics
Each of the following topics is one lesson, which is covered over the course of about one week. Students are introduced to the concept, then given "Try it Yourself" exercises to practice that concept. Various means are used, such as fill-in-the blank. short answer, long answer, fill in a chart, matching, and multiple choice. This fantastic resource also includes a word roots chart, with commonly used roots, suffixes, and prefixes.
Keeping a Word Study Notebook
Word Study Skills in Reading Literature
PAVE -- Predict, Associate, Verify, Evaluate
British English vs. American English
Anglo-Saxon and Latinate Word Origins
Old English
Review -- Roots and Affixes
High-Frequency Spelling Rules
Pronunciation
Middle English
Inferential Context Clues
Using Context Clues in Your Own Writing
Etymologies
Homophones
Easily Confused Pairs
Allusions and Eponyms (words formed from proper names)
Common Acronyms
Current Events Language: Words in the News
Words with Multiple Meanings
Figurative Language and Connotation
Making Effective Word Choices in Your Writing
Using New Words in Writing and Speech
Civics Connection -- Economic Terms
Civics Connection -- Political Terms
Civics Connection -- Legal Terms
Math and Science Words
Technology Terms
Weird Words
Expanding Your Word Knowledge